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Speaker 2 Hello, Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 Great to be back.

Speaker 2 Welcome to Love It or Leave It. It's been five days since Vice President Kamala Harris officially entered the race.
And if you think we've run out of coconut jokes, then you don't know this show.

Speaker 2 And if you think those coconut jokes will be good, then you definitely don't know this show.

Speaker 2 Tonight, great booking. Vice President Kamala Harris is here.
She was already booked

Speaker 2 and she didn't cancel. So that's amazing.
Monet Exchange

Speaker 2 pits drag queens against drab Republicans. Then we all fasten our star-spangled seat belts for a spin of the patriotic wheel.
Uncle Sam wants rants. But first,

Speaker 2 let's get into it.

Speaker 3 What a week.

Speaker 2 What a week.

Speaker 2 On Wednesday, President Biden addressed the nation from the Obal Office.

Speaker 4 I revere this office, but I love my country more. It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president.

Speaker 4 But in the defense of democracy, which is at stake, I think it's more important than any title.

Speaker 2 Don't feel bad for him, though. Becoming a national martyr is every young Catholic boy's ultimate dream.

Speaker 2 After that recurring one where God sends a letter to his mother detailing every time he's jerked in on a Sunday,

Speaker 2 the President continued.

Speaker 4 I draw strength and I find joy in working for the American people.

Speaker 4 But this sacred task of perfecting our union is not about me.

Speaker 3 It's about you,

Speaker 4 your families, your futures. It's about we, the people.

Speaker 4 We can never forget that.

Speaker 3 And I never have.

Speaker 2 Why did we decide we didn't want this guy? It's so weird to me.

Speaker 2 People are so weird. I don't get it.
Said Biden.

Speaker 4 I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy.

Speaker 4 That includes personal ambition.

Speaker 2 Biden then ended the telecast and instead of following Miranda Priestley into the Paris fashion show, threw his flip phone into the Fontaine de Fleu, Fontaine de Fleuve,

Speaker 2 Fontaine de Fleu,

Speaker 2 and walked away from it all. On Tuesday, Kamala Harris hit the ground running at a campaign event in Milwaukee.

Speaker 5 As Attorney General of California, I took on one of our country's largest for-profit colleges that was scamming students.

Speaker 5 Donald Trump ran a for-profit college that scammed students.

Speaker 5 As a prosecutor, I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 5 Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse.

Speaker 2 Hook it into my veins.

Speaker 2 Do you know how much of a world-class asshole you have to be that we forget you started a fake college to scam students?

Speaker 2 Students who wanted nothing more than to learn how to start businesses from the world's worst person.

Speaker 2 Here's Vice President Harris on Project 2025.

Speaker 5 Donald Trump wants to take our country backward.

Speaker 5 He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda

Speaker 5 will weaken the middle class. Like, we know we got to take this seriously.
And can't you believe they put that thing in writing?

Speaker 2 It is crazy that they put that thing in writing.

Speaker 2 Project 2025 should have been an oral tradition performed by throat singers at Heritage Foundation male-only retreats.

Speaker 2 And from the sounds of it, from the feel of it, from the vibe shift, feels like America is on board Kamala 2024 Express.

Speaker 6 We

Speaker 5 believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead.

Speaker 5 A future where no child has to grow up in poverty.

Speaker 5 Where every worker has the freedom to join a union.

Speaker 5 Where every person has affordable health care,

Speaker 5 affordable child care,

Speaker 5 and paid family leave.

Speaker 2 And fuck it, I'll say it. Diet Mountain Dew is racist.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Vote.org reported that over 38,500 people registered to vote since Biden dropped out on Sunday, a 700% spike in registrations this election cycle.

Speaker 2 Also on Wednesday, the crooked store dropped a new shirt that says vote in the brat font. Coincidence?

Speaker 2 It is a coincidence. It is a coincidence.
We couldn't get a picture of that.

Speaker 2 Celebrities followed in Charlie XCX's footsteps and endorsed Kamala with Cardi B tweeting, let's go. I told y'all Kamala was supposed to be the 2024 candidate.

Speaker 2 In 2024, let's elect a WOP, a woman-ass president.

Speaker 2 Hillary Clinton on Wednesday published a New York Times op-ed titled, How Kamala Harris Can Win and Make History.

Speaker 2 Clinton wrote of Biden giving up the nomination as one who shared that dream and has had to make peace with letting it go. I know this wasn't easy, but it was the right thing to do.

Speaker 2 Letting go of dreams is tough. I imagine.
Never done it personally. I still think this will be a TV show one day.

Speaker 2 No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 I know it can't be. I didn't get TV thin until I was radio old.

Speaker 2 Then on Thursday, Kamala's campaign released their first ad with Beyoncé's freedom as her campaign song.

Speaker 5 There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate. But us, we choose something different.

Speaker 7 We choose freedom.

Speaker 2 I I take that chaos part personally, grumbled Rudy Giuliani as he was being chased by like six geese.

Speaker 2 Let's enjoy more ad.

Speaker 5 The freedom not just to get by, but get ahead. The freedom to be safe from gun violence.
The freedom to make decisions about your own body.

Speaker 5 We choose a future where no child lives in poverty, where we can all afford health care. where no one is above the law.

Speaker 2 Into the veins.

Speaker 2 Trump responded, you had at Safe from Gun Violence.

Speaker 2 But then you lost me at the part about my crimes.

Speaker 2 Also on Thursday, Trump dropped his first attack ad, and this is how it starts.

Speaker 5 I am Camilla Harris. My pronouns are she and her.

Speaker 2 Unbelievable. This is how Trump explains the reasoning behind this ad.
Quote, I hate pronouns.

Speaker 2 I mean, Trump hate pronouns.

Speaker 2 Trump fearmongers around all all the topics you'd expect, the border, Defund the Police, Bernie Sanders, and worst of all.

Speaker 5 Do you ban plastic straws?

Speaker 3 I think we should.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 2 Just inside of our circle here, we can admit that that's a miss. Paper straws are bad is easily the Republican Party's strongest issue.

Speaker 2 But we can't let the fear of limp paper straws losing all structural integrity after three minutes in an iced old latte to control our futures. There has to be a better way.

Speaker 2 We can get Biden's cancer moonshot people on it. We could solve this problem.
And until then, we're just going to use the plastic straws.

Speaker 2 I would like, what do you say, Kamala, just using plastic straws? I don't like the sippy lid.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, Kamala's campaign team has been responding to Trump.

Speaker 2 They sent an email entitled, Statement on a 78-year-old criminal's Fox News Appearance, with a bulleted list of issues, including, Trump is clearly worried he made the wrong pick in J.D. Vance.

Speaker 2 Trump is old and quite weird, question mark. This guy should never be president again.

Speaker 2 First of all, 10 out of 10, no notes. It is awesome.
It is awesome seeing this campaign of talented people unleashed in this way. It's like Kamala walked around and breathed on the statues like Aslan.

Speaker 2 Then the campaign's secret weapon is fucking Doug.

Speaker 3 Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug.

Speaker 2 I've seen this proposed on social media, which is that we should not obey the previous conventions in any forum, that it should be, ladies and gentlemen, Madam President and Doug.

Speaker 2 His official title should be Doug.

Speaker 2 Speaking to Jewish Democrats this week, Doug said this:

Speaker 2 I'm just going to keep living

Speaker 2 openly like a Jew, and maybe there'll be a mezuzza in the White House.

Speaker 2 Let's just think of some of the downsides. Chuck Schumer sees the Mizuzza in the White House instantly climaxes.

Speaker 2 We toned it down from CUMS.

Speaker 2 It's a nice idea.

Speaker 2 But the White House won't be fully Jewified until there's a six-month-old box of Straits' Matza in the kitchen and a loose lactate rolling around the drawers of the Resolute Desk.

Speaker 2 You got to be able to walk into that White House and say, I can get a lactate if I need a lactate. That's how you know that this place is the home of a Jewish man.

Speaker 2 Doug hides the offeekomen in the situation room. Hi, Jinks, and an unfortunate military confrontation with China ensues.

Speaker 3 Uh-oh.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, Trump's team is reportedly panicked at new pollings, showing Harris in the lead just ahead of the former president. Imagine panicking about polls.
Couldn't be us.

Speaker 2 Not now, not ever.

Speaker 2 According to Reuters, Harris is currently polling at 44%, with Trump bringing up the rear at 42%.

Speaker 2 Back in the margin of error, baby, living life in that sweet, sweet MOV.

Speaker 3 Yum, yum, yum.

Speaker 2 But if it helps, Donald, you're in the lead age-wise. You're at 78.
Donald Trump is 78. And I think that's pretty old.

Speaker 2 Pretty old to nominate a person who's 78. Don't even know what these Republicans are thinking.
Strange decision they've made.

Speaker 2 He's a weird guy and old.

Speaker 2 Something to think about. Then you think, well, who's going to be president if he's at that age? Well, it's J.D.
Vance, someone whose personality is not good.

Speaker 2 Not a likable man. Not somebody you trust.

Speaker 2 Something to think about. Trump's chief pollster, who is not Tampa's gayest hairstylist, Tony Fabrizio, rushed.

Speaker 2 Fabrizio rushed to assure the MAGA fans that, yes, okay, the polls might look bad, but before long, Harris's honeymoon will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden's partner and co-pilot.

Speaker 2 She may have been Biden's co-pilot, but look at me. Look at me.
She's the captain now.

Speaker 2 Trump's buddies on Fox did their best to tamp down the nation's newfound optimism.

Speaker 8 You need to understand what's happening here. This is Kamala's honeymoon period.
She is experiencing a sugar high.

Speaker 8 The guy that can't walk and talk, that's dazed and confused, the guy that mumbles and bumbles and stumbles, oh, thank God it's not him.

Speaker 8 It's a honeymoon. It's a sugar high.

Speaker 3 But mark my words. It will be short-lived.

Speaker 2 So, first of all, I love that clip.

Speaker 2 I love that Sean Hannity is basically like a thunder blanket for

Speaker 2 angry, confused old white Republicans watching this, being like, what's happening? This can't, there's there, I don't understand. She seems, they seem to like her, but she's dancing.

Speaker 2 And he's like, it's okay. The polls are going to be bad, but you're going to be okay.
Just you get onto the desk and you get into a small space.

Speaker 2 It's just a sugar high, says Sean Hannity. Voters will come to their senses and realize they need us for a hearty, filling serving of dog shit.

Speaker 2 And I will say this. Sean does have a point.
Kamala is our rebound, and it did happen pretty fast after the breakup. But you know what? When it feels right, you know it.

Speaker 2 And before you say it, mom, no, this is not another Andrew Cuomo situation.

Speaker 2 What we have with Kamala is real.

Speaker 2 Republicans also continued to call Harris a DEI hire, their latest euphemism for being black if it's a woman speaking or a woman if it's a man speaking.

Speaker 2 Like Republican Representative Harriet Hagman.

Speaker 7 I think it's just a failure from top to bottom. I think she was a DEI hire, and I think that that's what we're seeing.
And I just don't think that they have anybody else.

Speaker 7 I just think that they're in real disarray.

Speaker 2 I just have to say, there are people online comparing her to George Santos and saying George Santos has snuck back into Congress. And

Speaker 2 that's not right.

Speaker 2 That's not right.

Speaker 3 Stop it.

Speaker 2 And sure, that makes sense. Kamala got to where she is because she's the black daughter of an immigrant.

Speaker 2 This is in contrast to Donald Trump, who worked his way up to real estate tycoon from his humble beginnings as son of real estate tycoon. Not to be outdone, Congressman Andy Oggles.

Speaker 2 filed articles of impeachment against Harris, accusing her of a public breach of trust for allegedly covering up the president's well-being or lack thereof.

Speaker 2 Wrote Oggles, Kamala Debbie Harris has knowingly misled the people of the United States to obfuscate the physical and cognitive well-being of the president of the United States, Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 They only got to Tuesday before busting out her middle name. I thought for sure we'd close out the week, but that's just on me, Jonathan Hussein Lovett.

Speaker 2 At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Donald Trump brought his post-assassination attempt, Spiritual Awakening, to a close.

Speaker 9 You know,

Speaker 2 I was supposed to be nice.

Speaker 9 They say

Speaker 9 something happened to me when I got shot. I became nice.

Speaker 9 And when you're dealing with these people, they're very dangerous people. When you're dealing with them, you can't be too nice.
You really can't be. So if you don't mind, I'm not going to be nice.

Speaker 2 Is that okay?

Speaker 2 They say something happened to me, the asshole area of my brain. They call it the asshole area.
It got knocked offline, okay, but it's back now.

Speaker 2 The doctors save it, and they're saying it's stronger than it's ever been. The fact that even he can make fun of the stupid fucking story that claimed he had been changed by what happened.

Speaker 2 He knows it's a joke.

Speaker 3 That was funny, though.

Speaker 2 I got to give it to him.

Speaker 3 That was a good one.

Speaker 2 Trump kindly repeated Harris's central campaign message.

Speaker 9 They get me to that position and then their campaign says, I'm the prosecutor and he is the convicted felon. That's their campaign.

Speaker 2 I don't think people are going to buy it. I don't think people are going to buy this true sentence that is so memorable as a contrast.

Speaker 2 I, her opponent, am repeating it at my own rally, reminding everyone here and every reporter covering this event about how interesting that contrast message is.

Speaker 2 It's like Pepsi saying, they think people like Santa and polar bears and are going to associate ice-cold Arctic snow and the joy of Christmas with their delicious, refreshing soda. Give me a break.

Speaker 3 Stupid thing for Pepsi to say.

Speaker 2 In all seriousness, if you really want to see where the Trump campaign is at right now, just check out Donald Jr. over on Rumble.

Speaker 3 Like, there's some of them who are like, we don't even want white women.

Speaker 3 Like, it doesn't, like, we need to check like three or four boxes so you can end up with like if you're like you know a trans communist this that the other like you too can be the ceo of a fortune 500 company with no experience who's actually spent real time with them like any sort of i was the blue collar billionaire 15 years ago okay okay okay

Speaker 2 first of all do you remember that commercial when i was a kid where they said this has not been sped up This footage has not been sped up. That is the speed at which Don Jr.

Speaker 2 is speaking to a silent and deeply confused JD Vance.

Speaker 2 Shout out to Ron Filipowski for that incredible montage of Don Jr. on one.
Meanwhile, social media was aflame this week with an incredible claim about Republican vice presidential candidate J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance Vance. I never know.

Speaker 2 The claim is that J.D. Vance once had sex with a couch.

Speaker 2 How many of you are so terminally online that you're aware of this?

Speaker 2 How many of you are not aware of this?

Speaker 2 Proud of you. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 Sex with a couch, responded Vance. Okay, I'll bite.
Why do you think they call it a love seat?

Speaker 2 The craziest part is, Vance let the couch get on top because J.D. Vance is a lazy boy.

Speaker 2 I haven't seen people have this much fun on the internet since everybody found out that the JD in J.D. Vance stands for Jadolf Dittler.

Speaker 2 Alas, we are nothing of not journalists here. As it turns out, no such passage exists in Vance's New York Times bestseller.
And so we have to say there remains no concrete evidence that J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance has publicly admitted to having sex with a couch. We cannot say more than that.

Speaker 2 But that is what we can say. It did lead to this incredible fact check by the AP.
The headline is, no, J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch.

Speaker 2 But much in the same way that the AP might have debunked one aspect of the story, that is a claim the AP cannot make. The only claim the AP could make is that the claim that J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance documented sex with a couch in Hillbilly Elegy, that is false. But this is a sweeping, sweeping claim of the negative.

Speaker 2 And anyway, a headline like that tells you your candidacy is off to a roaring start.

Speaker 2 In other J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance, not so recent news, a 2021 clip resurfaced in which the Republican vice presidential candidate accuses Kamala Harris, who is a step parent, of being miserable because she's childless.

Speaker 2 A very good point, because think of all of your friends who don't have children and how miserable they are.

Speaker 2 And how they're always going, oh, you know what have made this weekend getaway more fun? A toddler.

Speaker 2 Here's what Vance said.

Speaker 10 We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made.

Speaker 10 And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.

Speaker 2 This naturally enraged the nation's childless cat ladies, including Jennifer Anniston, who had spoken publicly about her fertility issues and unsuccessful attempt to conceive using IVF, wrote on Instagram: I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential VP.

Speaker 2 All I can say is, Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.

Speaker 11 As Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz put it, I'll tell you what, go ahead and continue to denigrate people. Go ahead.
My God, they went after cat people. Good luck with that.

Speaker 11 Turn on the email and see what cat people do when you go after them.

Speaker 2 Seems like they mostly just post pictures of their cats, but I take his point. The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff leapt into the fray to defend Harris against J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance's sexism and criticism. My God, Trump can't even get his current wife to defend him.
Said Kirsten Amhoff, these are baseless attacks for over 10 years since Colin Ell over teenagers.

Speaker 2 Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is a loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present.
I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.

Speaker 2 I thought it was mature and involved for me to reply, ha ha ha, when my ex texts me a meme. This is incredible.
Harris isn't childless, and it's nice of Kirsten with an E to point that out.

Speaker 2 But also, childless women are not unfit to hold public office. Giving birth is not a prerequisite to governing.

Speaker 2 What kind of twisted little sicko freak looks at a woman running for office and goes, ah, but has she breastfed? Also,

Speaker 2 being endorsed as a stepmom by the ex-wife of your husband is Jedi-level relationship skills. Her husband's ex-wife is on her side.
Get this woman in a room with Putin.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile,

Speaker 2 fucking weirdos.

Speaker 2 The weirdo argument is a path. These people are fucking freaks who have talked to each other in rooms alone for so long that they come out and the shit they said is weird.

Speaker 2 Remember when the Chicago Tribune wanted to call themselves Tronk?

Speaker 2 This storied brand got into a room, a bunch of people spent too much time, had too much coffee, didn't talk to anybody outside of the room, and they came out and said, we've done it.

Speaker 2 We've figured out a new brand for this thing.

Speaker 3 We're calling it Tronk.

Speaker 2 And everybody's like, stupid, bad, go away. The Republicans have gone full trunk.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, the government's whitest men rushed to throw their hats in the ring for Kamala's vice presidency this week. I got to tell you, I'm loving the show.

Speaker 2 Minnesota Governor Tim Wallace came out swinging against Trump and J.D. Vance.

Speaker 11 Their policies are what destroyed rural America. They've divided us.
They're in our exam rooms. They're telling us what books to read.

Speaker 2 Wallace went on to say this.

Speaker 11 I think this is going back to the bread and butter, getting away from this division.

Speaker 11 We do not like what has happened where we can't even go to Thanksgiving dinner with our uncle because you end up in some weird fight that is unnecessary.

Speaker 11 And I think bringing back people together, well, it's true.

Speaker 3 These guys are just weird.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 11 they're running for He-Man Women Haters Club or something.

Speaker 2 Pick him, pick him, said Joe Biden, loving the reference.

Speaker 2 It's a reference to the little rascals, which I presume Joe Biden would refer to as our gang.

Speaker 2 Pete Buttigieg also clowned Vance on CNN.

Speaker 12 The choice of J.D. Vance is a regrettable choice because he's somebody who was at his most convincing and effective when he talked about how unfit for office Donald Trump is.

Speaker 12 And he has not explained any reason, other than of course his obvious interest in power, why he would have changed his mind on that.

Speaker 2 Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and Arizona senator and former astronaut and Navy pilot Mark Kelly also came out swinging, but to whom shall she give her rose?

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in D.C. to speak to Congress on Wednesday, honestly, perfect week for him to come.

Speaker 2 He's like a guy trying to get everybody's attention during a fireworks show happening directly above an active shark attack.

Speaker 2 In the end, around half of Congress's Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did not attend Nanyahu's address. Pelosi opted to meet with families of hostages instead.

Speaker 2 Said Pelosi, Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation in the House chamber today was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States.

Speaker 2 That has to have hit Netanyahu pretty hard, given that Congress has had a lot of sick fucks address it before. For example,

Speaker 3 for those listening, that is a picture of Elmo addressing Congress.

Speaker 2 Meanwhile, protesters released piles of maggots and crickets at the Watergate Hotel where Netanyahu was staying. My salad, said RFK Jr.

Speaker 2 And what's interesting about that, RFK Jr. has never said anything about eating bugs, but you thought you missed a story.

Speaker 2 Speaking of creeps, Senator Bob Menendez submitted his resignation and will leave office on August 20th following his conviction on federal corruption charges. Sounds like Kamala just found her VP.

Speaker 2 If you want to defeat a criminal, you got to think like a criminal.

Speaker 2 In a recent Adidas ad, Bella Hadid was featured wearing a pair of retro sneakers modeled after a design that was used in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Speaker 2 Israel reacted furiously to the ad, saying Adidas recently launched a new campaign for their shoes to highlight the 1972 Olympics.

Speaker 2 In Munich, 11 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the Munich Olympics. Guess what who the face of their campaign is?

Speaker 2 Bella Hadid, a half-Palestinian model who has a history of spreading anti-Semitism and calling for violence against Israelis and Jews.

Speaker 2 There's only one reason Adidas would hire the most beautiful woman in the world, and that's to do subtle, esoteric, shoe-based anti-Semitism.

Speaker 2 On Monday, Adidas posted an Instagram apology writing that its recent campaign was not meant to have any connection to the tragedy at the 1972 Olympics. I believe them.

Speaker 2 You can tell because there isn't one. It's been a while since I've seen the movie Munich, but as Spielberg tells it, the attack had very little to do with running shoes.

Speaker 2 Unfortunately, it's not a full apology in my eyes until it includes the words, we've been very badidis.

Speaker 2 Speaking of bad things, in the wake of Elon Musk's sit-down interview with Canada's weirdest man, Jordan Peterson, in which Musk claims he was tricked into allowing his eldest child to transition, that child, Vivian, now 20, aired him out on threats.

Speaker 2 Vivian pointed to a tweet Musk wrote in the past in which he said that she was born gay and slightly autistic.

Speaker 2 And as someone who was born gay, and let's face it, with a little whiff of the spectrum on them, I take offense.

Speaker 2 Vivian says that the evidence, which is that she once described Elon's jacket as looking fabulous when she was four years old, didn't happen and couldn't have happened because her father, quote, simply wasn't there, end quote, while she was growing up.

Speaker 2 Claiming children are gay and autistic instead of trans has become an increasingly common right-wing talking point.

Speaker 2 As to her father's claim she isn't trans, Vivian concluded, I am legally recognized as a woman in the state of California, and I don't concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me.

Speaker 2 Obviously, Elon can't say the same because, in a ketamine-fueled haze, he's desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate, red-piled incels and pick-me's who are quick to give it to him.

Speaker 2 Go touch some fucking grass.

Speaker 2 If you're a father and your child doesn't go public with your ketamine problem, then congratulations, you landed the plane.

Speaker 2 And if your child's calling you by your first name on the internet while mocking your ketamine problem, you muffed it.

Speaker 2 Also, how fun that Elon's trans kid is 10 times the poster he could ever dream of being, and it's all happening on threats.

Speaker 2 And finally, the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile was involved in a rollover crash in Illinois, though luckily no injuries were reported.

Speaker 2 The Wiener Mobile is still rolling over at this very moment to keep it at a juicy 140 degrees.

Speaker 2 Up next, Vice President Konala Harris definitely has time for this.

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Speaker 3 And we're back.

Speaker 2 I couldn't be more excited to bring out our next guest. She's had a whirlwind of a week, been traveling all over the country.
It's honestly a miracle that she can make time for us.

Speaker 2 But here she is, existing in the context of all in which she lives and what came before her. Please welcome my next president.
Yours, it's Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 Madam Vice President, thank you so much for being here. This has been such an exciting week.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Everyone feels so hopeful and energized. It's like we all nearly went over a cliff and then we look straight down into it, but Nancy Pelosi pulled us onto her shoulders and scrambled up a tree branch.

Speaker 2 We're not out of danger, but we feel like we've cheated death. death.
So that feels good. What's it been like for you?

Speaker 6 You know, I just want to say,

Speaker 3 okay,

Speaker 6 in case he's still on speakerphone, Joe, we love you.

Speaker 6 Okay, and we are clear.

Speaker 6 You just, you never know with him. You know, I do want to thank Joe, okay, for making this selfless, patriotic decision.
But that's just who the president is.

Speaker 6 You know, one time he offered me the last cough drop he had in his pocket.

Speaker 6 Isn't that nice?

Speaker 6 It was right before the debate, so in hindsight, I shouldn't have taken it.

Speaker 3 But here we are.

Speaker 6 You watch that debate back?

Speaker 2 I did.

Speaker 6 Yeah. He sounded like Jennifer Coolidge

Speaker 6 had a cold.

Speaker 2 He sounded like Jennifer. That's what you thought.
And that's what I,

Speaker 3 yeah. Huh.
Folks, I want a hot dog real bad.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 in just a matter of days, your campaign raised more than $100 million.

Speaker 2 The youth are churning out Kamala fan cams on TikTok. People are fired up.
Did you expect this level of enthusiasm?

Speaker 6 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 100%. You know, I'm glad that young people are excited.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 America needs young people to be invested in our politics. And if that starts with singing about coconuts to the tune of Chappelle Rhone, am I saying that right? Sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 Chappelle Rhone.

Speaker 6 I think it's Ronan.

Speaker 2 Chappelle Ronan. Some people say Chappelle Rollins.

Speaker 6 If it's Chappelle wrong, I don't want to be right.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 And if that's how we get young people excited, then I love that for us.

Speaker 6 Knee deep in the presidency.

Speaker 6 Joe dropped out. Now it's my turn.

Speaker 6 That's been floating around out there, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. No, no, it has been.
100%.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, you're on it. You're right on the pulse.

Speaker 3 The beating pulse.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 the hard part of this election is not over. The completely impossible, boring, yet terrifying sleep paralysis part seems to be over.
But the hard part is just beginning.

Speaker 2 How are you feeling about the challenges to come?

Speaker 6 You know, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Okay.

Speaker 6 It's going to be tough, right?

Speaker 6 Brat summer won't last forever.

Speaker 6 And what comes after that? Rascal autumn?

Speaker 6 We don't even know what that is yet, John.

Speaker 2 But you're ready for whatever comes.

Speaker 6 I'm ready for whatever season.

Speaker 2 Even people who had incredible expectations for the kind of candidate you would be, I've been blown away by how you have hit the ground running, taking in a matter of hours the mantle of defender of democracy with everybody hope on your shoulder, and you're rising to this occasion.

Speaker 2 How did you do that?

Speaker 6 How did I do that? I've been in hiding for three years.

Speaker 6 I've been training, getting better, faster, stronger.

Speaker 6 Laugher.

Speaker 6 Huh. That's how I did it.

Speaker 3 That's how you did it?

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 some of these Republicans

Speaker 2 have been actually saying insulting things about your laugh. How does that feel? That must be frustrating.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, that sucks.

Speaker 6 But honestly, I do think that's interesting because I don't think Donald Trump can laugh.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 6 And I think that that's more fucked up

Speaker 6 than a woman who laughs when shit's funny.

Speaker 6 Than a man who can't, please.

Speaker 2 That is strange that we have never seen Donald Trump truly laugh in public.

Speaker 6 That is wild. Yeah, what do you think that is?

Speaker 2 So people have tried to, I have tried to say, I've said this,

Speaker 2 we've never seen Donald Trump love, and people send me what they consider the closest you can find. What does that mean where he's like, if that's the best you got, he scoffs.

Speaker 2 He'll do some scoffing, but he doesn't laugh.

Speaker 2 What do you think that says about a man's mind?

Speaker 3 Broken, bad,

Speaker 6 ungood.

Speaker 3 Now,

Speaker 2 so what do you think about...

Speaker 2 Like, how are you going to, you have to do two tasks. You have a huge task ahead of you.

Speaker 2 One is to make the whole Democratic coalition that turned out to defeat Donald Trump the first time and the second time turn out for you.

Speaker 2 But then there's a lot of moderate voters, undecided voters that are just getting to know you. Yeah.
Are you ready to make the case to those undecided voters?

Speaker 6 I feel like I am. I'm so memeable.

Speaker 6 I'm everywhere. They can't get rid of me.
I'll be in the Midwest. I'll get a white guy.

Speaker 3 Whatever.

Speaker 6 That's what they want. Fine.

Speaker 3 I'll get a white guy. Which one?

Speaker 2 You have any total?

Speaker 6 Elmers.

Speaker 2 Elmer's. Just a.

Speaker 3 Glue. Glue.
Just pasty.

Speaker 2 Just a paste.

Speaker 3 Just some glutage.

Speaker 6 Just pasty, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Pete glutaj.

Speaker 6 That was really good.

Speaker 3 Thanks.

Speaker 2 Thanks. So.

Speaker 3 Glutig. Glutajedge.

Speaker 6 I'm going to get that crocheted on a pillow.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm rubber.

Speaker 2 You're Pete Glutig.

Speaker 2 That's nothing.

Speaker 2 Sorry. Sorry, I'm nervous.
I'm talking to the vice president. I'm talking to the next president of the United States.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 So, Republicans have already begun throwing some pretty racist, misogynist Getty at the wall, trying to figure out how to attack you.

Speaker 2 One of them is your laugh. The other is that they've started taking to calling you some kind of a they want to call you a DEI hire.

Speaker 3 DEI hire.

Speaker 6 I think that that is interesting because I could arrest all of them.

Speaker 3 I won't.

Speaker 3 But will I?

Speaker 2 What's interesting?

Speaker 2 It's funny. I'm glad you brought it.

Speaker 3 Oh, Libby.

Speaker 2 You know, one of the criticisms of your 2020 campaign is that you didn't want to run as a prosecutor when there was

Speaker 2 a kind of progressive fervor in the party at that time in which people thought that that might be a liability.

Speaker 2 Obviously, Republicans have been throwing a lot of pretty absurd and disgusting attacks your way. But some people have even gone so far as to say that impressions of you

Speaker 2 are racist or misogynist.

Speaker 3 How do you feel about that? That's true, yeah.

Speaker 6 Anyone doing an impression of me is a racist homophobe, honestly. He's probably never ate pussy.

Speaker 2 But so, I mean,

Speaker 2 are you worried that people are a little too hopeful, that at some point this moment is going to give way and gonna crescend it, like it's gonna go bye-bye?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's gonna peak.

Speaker 6 Sometimes I wonder if

Speaker 6 I found glass in my mouth a couple weeks ago,

Speaker 6 and I wonder if I died

Speaker 6 and that this is a dream.

Speaker 6 Did that answer that for you?

Speaker 3 Sure.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So we already started touching on this, but let's talk about your VP pick for a second. Right.

Speaker 3 Elmer.

Speaker 2 Can you give us a little bit more on who you might be leaning towards? Give us a little scoop.

Speaker 3 Any scoops? A little scoop.

Speaker 2 Got any scoops for us?

Speaker 6 You want a little scoop? You know, I am looking for

Speaker 6 someone to compliment me. Just whoever's going to tell me I look really nice.

Speaker 6 Just someone who's going to be like, you're so smart.

Speaker 6 It's really nice that you laugh. Stuff like that.

Speaker 2 So, oh, like like yeah to compliment you to to serve as some yeah i see what you mean have you know one of them is an astronaut mark kelly yeah

Speaker 6 and no i like that because he did the gorilla suit thing that was him yes

Speaker 2 that's fun when he was when when you better not do that to me though when senator mark kelly was an astronaut aboard i believe the international space station he without his other astronauts on board on board knowing had brought as his special item i guess a um a full gorilla suit, and then put it on and terrorized

Speaker 3 his fellow astronauts.

Speaker 2 That's cool.

Speaker 6 Hilarious.

Speaker 6 That's so funny and fucked up. Imagine

Speaker 6 you're in space.

Speaker 2 You're in space.

Speaker 6 For months, weeks, it's just you and the few other people there.

Speaker 6 And then there's a gorilla.

Speaker 6 That's awesome.

Speaker 2 Do you know that the International Space Station apparently has a kind of gross smell from all the people that have been on there not showering for so many years?

Speaker 6 I didn't need to know that.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, you're going to be in charge of now, so that might be something you need to look into.

Speaker 6 The smell?

Speaker 3 Yeah, the smell.

Speaker 2 Or the International Space Station. It's not a problem.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 6 I'll tell them to stop smelling like a GameStop. And

Speaker 6 I feel like they're a bigger fish to fry, honestly.

Speaker 6 But yeah, cool. Get some Febreze.

Speaker 3 Wow, that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 Now, you're about to head out. This is the most consequential 100 days that any candidate has ever had.
A week ago, you were not a candidate. Now you have 100 days to make your case to the country.

Speaker 2 Is there any piece of that makes you nervous?

Speaker 6 No, not at all. Because, okay, look, a week ago, I didn't exist in the context.

Speaker 6 But now I exist in the context. I did not fall out of the coconut tree.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 No, I do know what you mean.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You're unburdened.

Speaker 6 I'm unburdened by what has been.

Speaker 6 Exactly.

Speaker 2 Vice President Kamala Harris, everybody. Thank you, Cam.
Everybody, give it up for Allison Reese.

Speaker 3 And we're back.

Speaker 2 Please welcome to the stage, singer, performer, drag icon, co-host of Sibling Rivalry, and one of the founders of the brand new drag pack, the Incredible Monet Exchange.

Speaker 3 Hold on, John.

Speaker 2 You forgot gorgeous. And gorgeous.
I should have said gorgeous.

Speaker 3 Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.
What happened here? I don't know how messy is she.

Speaker 2 That's part of it. That's part of it.
Lovely to see you. So now, before we get into it,

Speaker 2 something did happen on this show that does involve your co-host, which is this. Your co-host, Bob the Dragon, Queen, did our pride show in 2022.
Bob comes on the pod.

Speaker 2 She very clearly has absolutely no idea what this show is, and then goes back to you and talks about having no fucking idea what this show is. And then you try to explain it.
You get it wrong.

Speaker 3 How did I get it wrong?

Speaker 2 Yes, because you thought that somehow, I can't remember the details, but in some sense, you confused me with Jon Favreau and believed we were in some kind of a relationship.

Speaker 3 Okay. So I listened to Pot Save America.
I'm obsessed with you and Jon Favreau, but I remember I fell in love with Jon Favreau through some MSNBC something. I was like, who is that?

Speaker 3 Then I found out that then I don't know what happened. Then for some reason, I thought that you and Jon Favreau were an item, a couple.
And I was like, girl,

Speaker 3 you went on Jon Lovett's podcast. That is Jon Favreau's husband.
And so,

Speaker 3 and am I wrong?

Speaker 2 Yeah, he said no.

Speaker 2 So now you have started Drag Pack.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 2 Which is really exciting. Can you just talk about like what it, what is it?

Speaker 3 How do you come together? So it's a political action committee and it's a pack come together with Queens.

Speaker 3 And we are here to essentially initiate to get Gen Z obsessed with politics and get them into this whole bit because we realize that Gen Z is a huge voting block.

Speaker 3 And a lot of our fans happen to be Gen Z, you know, because drag is fierce, and they're really engaged. So, we just felt like we could be most useful

Speaker 3 in this political cycle and hopefully beyond

Speaker 3 by activating them to getting them excited about politics and having them do the work with us.

Speaker 3 Nice. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And I,

Speaker 3 being a Gen Z girly.

Speaker 3 Why y'all laughing? I make a joke.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 I wish.

Speaker 2 Look, we're just two Gen Z girlies.

Speaker 2 So, first of all, has this week been a bit easier in terms of the recruitment?

Speaker 3 Oh my God, yes.

Speaker 3 Like, it's so crazy how everyone, like, it feels like Gen Z has gotten so much more excited about this political cycle because old Uncle Joe said, you know what, I'm going to sit this one out. Like,

Speaker 3 to be honest, even through our Instagram and everything, people are saying they have not been this excited since Obama in a very long time. So I feel like that is a really, we have a lot of momentum.

Speaker 3 A lot of people are,

Speaker 3 listen, Beyonce and Taylor ain't even saying nothing yet.

Speaker 2 I know, and that's, they're still loaded up.

Speaker 3 I know.

Speaker 2 Well, Beyonce gave approval for the song. She did.
And Beyonce's mom posted the photo, I believe.

Speaker 3 Oh, she did? I think. You follow Miss Tina?

Speaker 2 I follow people who follow me.

Speaker 3 Okay, got you. Yeah.
So when

Speaker 3 Beyonce and Taylor get on track? Girl, Gen Z's about to fuck. Oh, sorry.
Can I curse on that? Yeah. They're about to fuck it up in this month.

Speaker 3 They know what they're going to do. It's going to be for us.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So Project 2025, I think, is one of the motivating reasons for forming this pack. It seems like Trump had to say he tried to disavow Project 2025.

Speaker 2 The Democratic candidates have started talking more about it, but it seems like it was organic. Like people were bringing up Project 2025 on their own.

Speaker 2 Like, have you found that when you're organizing this drag pack that people are talking about Project 2025? Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 3 I think, you know, through social media and through, I know

Speaker 3 they're trying to shut it down and

Speaker 3 squander it, but through things like tick tock like people are getting a lot of information through social media and i think we cannot ignore that like people are not ignorant anymore like this like you wake up in the morning and you you you you brush your teeth hopefully and then you open your phone like you see 19 tick tocks about the information and this stupid 900 uh word uh uh uh triple space uh size 15 comic sans uh document and you're like oh wow like like we like the information is here so i think that people are coming to us with information about project 2025 that we don't even know so i think it's it's great it's great that they're they they know already because i know me

Speaker 3 old 18 year old 22 25 year old monet girl i wasn't worried about that i was on craigslist i wasn't talking about no project 2020 y'all even know what that is see

Speaker 2 they gave it away you know you have to just be like look as someone who doesn't remember 9-11

Speaker 3 and go from there

Speaker 2 so uh now uh Before we get to the game, I want to talk about JD Vance's guideliner.

Speaker 3 Oh, God.

Speaker 2 That is is like he's wearing gender-affirming makeup.

Speaker 3 He is. He is.
But I like how you're concentrating on the guy liner. Look at the bad filler, though.
You know what I mean? You think? Like, you got this by Dr. 90210.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 Like, Dr. Zismore fucked him up, girl.

Speaker 2 Dr. Zismore, man, doing it again.

Speaker 2 Do Gen Z know about Dr. Zizmore?

Speaker 3 Gen Z, do you know about Dr. Zizmore in New York?

Speaker 3 No, you don't. You're not Gen Z.
Stop it, girl.

Speaker 3 You're wearing Hollister. Stop it, honey.

Speaker 2 From opening a library to read to reading at an actual fucking library to America's children, queer people are more than just fabulous outfits and peckable lip syncs and catty feuds, but we're definitely those things too.

Speaker 2 Monet, what would you say is your all-time favorite beef from Drag Race?

Speaker 3 Ooh, my all-time favorite beef, it would have to be

Speaker 3 season four,

Speaker 3 and it was Sharon Needles versus Fifi O'Hara. It is good old, like, drag race in its prime.
Just Fifi, Sharon would inhale, Bitch, why the fuck you inhaling, girl?

Speaker 3 Like, it was crazy. And I, I, I mean, toxic me, I just love.
I literally go back and just watch the fights on all those stupid Miss Mojo YouTube ranking videos. Obsessed.
Obsessed.

Speaker 2 Now, there is one group that is more quick to a nasty public fight than drag queens, and it's the Republican Party, which is why we're playing a game we're calling Witch Bitch.

Speaker 2 That's a good one.

Speaker 2 That's a good art. That's a good art.
I'm going to describe a beef to you, and you will tell us, am I describing a squabble between drag queens or a fight between elected Republican officials?

Speaker 2 So let us play which bitch. A consummate professional passionately informs a colleague that she does not take money from a benefactor, but she could if she wanted to.

Speaker 3 Oh, that is

Speaker 3 1,000% Changelo.

Speaker 2 Yep, that's correct. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, that's Chandler. The legendary Sugar daddy rad.
I could have a sugar daddy if I wanted to have a sugar daddy. I could have, but yeah, I don't know the rest of it.

Speaker 2 Next up, an old school diva, some I consider a has-bin, savages an unhinged colleague after being interrupted during an interview.

Speaker 3 Is that Maxine Waters?

Speaker 2 No, that's it is a political event. It is Republican Queen.

Speaker 3 So I mean, okay.

Speaker 3 Let's give a check.

Speaker 3 Bang!

Speaker 2 It was this.

Speaker 17 You know, he looks very unhinged. I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him.
And I'm not not sure if he's on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs.

Speaker 2 Fucking, that is the cattiest, fucking, bitchiest Kevin. I hope he gets it.
That's like a, oh, poor child.

Speaker 3 You know? What CNN needs to do is add the

Speaker 3 shady rattlesnake noise sound. Yes.

Speaker 3 That'd be great.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the news will be fun again, you know? It'll be good.

Speaker 2 That's so, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, man, that would be awesome. That'd be, you know, people would complain.
They'd say, oh, this isn't reality. It's like, okay, all right, let's keep pretending.
Let's keep pretending this is news.

Speaker 3 I just add a RuPaul to the House of Representatives. Ladies!

Speaker 3 Silence!

Speaker 2 Basically, Nancy Pelosi was in the RuPaul role for the last two weeks.

Speaker 2 This fiery Prima Donna called a colleague Tubby and a little bitch on social media.

Speaker 3 Oh, that is 1,000% the Republicans by the way.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's right. That's Representative Derek Van Orton

Speaker 2 also going after Matt Gates.

Speaker 3 So good.

Speaker 2 A little bitch.

Speaker 2 Next up, two Titans clash after accusations of arrogance on a national stage.

Speaker 3 Drag queen?

Speaker 2 Yep, that's Candy Muse versus

Speaker 2 Tamishaman in season 13, Untucked. Yeah.
That most likely won Untucked its Emmy for a standing unstructured reality program.

Speaker 3 I believe we have a clip. Because you're going to say you call me arrogant and like you don't like me, bitch.
You don't know me from a motherfucking hall in the wall. All right.

Speaker 3 So I suggest on the beach. I suggest

Speaker 3 you're the right one. Yes the hell you are.

Speaker 3 Like I said, i don't

Speaker 3 i'm obsessed with candy muse saying anything

Speaker 2 obsessed this is so you have to have a friend who watches all the untucks to tell you which untucks you have to watch and i watch this untucks so good next up a jacked blonde reads an uptight colleague for filth calling them a damn fool

Speaker 3 A jacked blonde. That has to mean a miss MTG.
It is.

Speaker 3 It is. It is.

Speaker 18 So for Mike Johnson to actually think that his Republican conference supports sending $60 billion to Ukraine, he is a damn fool, Steve.

Speaker 3 And he's a liar.

Speaker 3 Can I tell you something?

Speaker 3 I have a ring. We all have ring cameras.
Tell me why I saw this bleach, blonde, bad-built, butch lady.

Speaker 3 stealing my packages from my front door. And why I tell you, she hopped over my neighbor's

Speaker 3 ficus branch and tuck and rolled onto my front yard and sold a package. I said, bitch, you deserve that.

Speaker 2 She ate that. On that parkour.

Speaker 3 Yes, but it was like a very bleach blonde, horrible wig she had on. And I was like, you know what, Ferris, you're not.

Speaker 2 Can I ask you a personal question? Yeah.

Speaker 3 What was the package? It was an August lock.

Speaker 3 Ironically, a lock. I know.
And some lube. Oh.

Speaker 2 What a funny thing to open. I'd be like, well, I hope, like, if you open that, you really, that's specific.
It is very specific. Well, the lube isn't isn't that specific.

Speaker 3 Everybody likes lube.

Speaker 3 She can't use it. I'm like, at least, you know, you open it, you can't, you can't use it.
Just run back and just throw it and direct her. Run away.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like, I guess I can't use it. Yeah, give it back.

Speaker 3 Just give it back. It's not valuable.

Speaker 2 I don't know what the, that's not like, it wasn't a haul.

Speaker 3 It wasn't an exciting thing to see. They're really

Speaker 3 terrible.

Speaker 2 Beach blonde butch body.

Speaker 3 It's really, no, bleach blonde, bad-built butch body. Butch body.

Speaker 2 Bleach blonde, bad-built butch body.

Speaker 3 It's too much to say.

Speaker 2 Beach blonde, bleach, blonde, bad-built, butch body. Say what now?

Speaker 2 Bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body.

Speaker 3 So good.

Speaker 3 Honestly, Jasmine Crockett should be the next poet laureate for that one, okay?

Speaker 3 She really should be. I want her to give the poem at Kamala's inaugural.

Speaker 2 Oh, now just, just, I hadn't even thought about a poet at Kamala's inaugural. Just a fun thing to think about.
We got to stay in the fucking game.

Speaker 3 We got to stay focused.

Speaker 2 We got to stay focused. We can't think about that now.
We can't think about that poem.

Speaker 3 We can't think about it.

Speaker 2 It's not worth thinking about.

Speaker 2 How can people support?

Speaker 2 Where is the drag pack going to be? What's it doing?

Speaker 3 So, yeah, go to dragpact.org, and you guys, we have a list of ways that you can help support us, get the word out about us, and support the causes that we're interested in.

Speaker 3 Because, you know, there's a lot of anti-drag, anti-trans legislation going up out there.

Speaker 3 And a lot of this anti-drag legislation is just anti-trans legislation, just colored up in words to kind of mask it.

Speaker 3 So we are always fighting for those in our community who are the least served, and we try to make the biggest impact. So dragpack.org.

Speaker 2 Everybody, go to dragpack.org. I also like,

Speaker 2 you know, whether or not it's the most salient and effective way to convince a middle-aged person in the Midwest who voted for Trump than Biden and is kind of not sure where they're going to land, regardless, like the way in which Project 2025 uses...

Speaker 2 trans issues as a backdoor way to talk about regulating speech is so dangerous.

Speaker 2 I don't think people have fully under, like, people talk about the way in which they will take over different parts of the federal government.

Speaker 2 People talk about how Project 2025 calls for invoking the Comstock Act to make sending abortion medication illegal. They talk about a lot of different aspects of it.

Speaker 2 I do not think people have focused yet enough.

Speaker 2 People have even talked about the fact that it talks about banning pornography, but people do not understand that the document makes clear that what is pornography to them, it can be anything that refers to gender ideology and that it is not protected by the First Amendment.

Speaker 2 And if you combine that with what Clarence Thomas is saying about needing to use the tradition of the First Amendment to interpret whether or not the First Amendment applies, you start to see a very dangerous path in which laws ostensibly or

Speaker 2 deceptively, misleadingly, disgustingly defined as protecting children from harm are used to ban not just drag shows, not even just the right of trans people to get medicine, but to curtail everybody's freedom of speech, everybody's ability to access the care they need, everybody's ability to live as they see.

Speaker 2 So I'm really glad that you guys are doing drag pack. It's an amazing thing.
More people should get involved and it makes it fun, you know, and it's a like, so thank you for doing that.

Speaker 2 Monet Exchange, everybody, dragpack.org. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Monet's gonna stick around. When we come back, we're all proud to be an American.

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Speaker 2 All right, please welcome Allison Reese to the stage for the first time.

Speaker 2 Lovely to see you. Lovely to see you.

Speaker 3 Thank you for being here.

Speaker 3 Hello. All right.

Speaker 2 Tonight, in honor of a great week,

Speaker 2 great week in politics, and the start of the Olympics, we're going to do what the Olympics does best: a light in us, a kind of nationalistic fervor in a segment we're calling, O Say, Can You Spin?

Speaker 3 Pretty good.

Speaker 2 Pretty good. There we are in those little coats.
I remember that day.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was such a fun day.

Speaker 2 It was such an honor.

Speaker 3 I was jealous that you were in front. Sorry.
Do you remember the potato salad they had at Crafty? Yes. That was so funny.
It was so good.

Speaker 2 Even though the raisins were there.

Speaker 3 The raisins were there, and I said a white person did this. I know.
I'm like, okay, Chad, we got you, girl. Okay.

Speaker 3 I thought people would like raisins. All right.
All right.

Speaker 2 Here's how it works. We're going to spin this wheel, and then we're just going to share something that makes us feel patriotic because we're taking patriotism back for these people.

Speaker 2 Let's spin the wheel.

Speaker 2 Oh, I love this patriotic wheel.

Speaker 2 So patriotic.

Speaker 2 Oh, Allison. Oh, yeah, I forgot.

Speaker 3 We have an eagle.

Speaker 2 You have to hold the eagle while you speak.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 6 very normal.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 6 Very normal. Very good.

Speaker 6 I'm really excited to finally feel patriotic

Speaker 2 about

Speaker 3 being booked.

Speaker 3 I'll be honest.

Speaker 6 I'm excited to, you know,

Speaker 6 do this show

Speaker 6 to get attention. I'm the middle of six kids, so I feel like it's

Speaker 6 the universe paying me back in interest with all of this attention I have right now.

Speaker 2 I love that. The moment I saw that President Biden was endorsing Vice President Harris and that everybody was rallying behind her, I don't think it was the first thought, but it wasn't the 10th.

Speaker 2 It was like the sixth thought I had:

Speaker 2 Alice is going to crush. This is a good time.
This is a good time to be Alice in Reese. And then, and then, and then I was like, God, this is awesome.

Speaker 2 Because people were saying, Maya, Rudolph, Maya Rudolph. I was like, okay, I guess.

Speaker 2 And then, what do I see? The New York Times has a story about

Speaker 2 you doing comma.

Speaker 6 Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 And even better, they use a picture of us together.

Speaker 3 They did!

Speaker 6 It is the picture I sent them.

Speaker 3 Hell yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 What were thoughts two through five?

Speaker 2 So the first thought is, this is awesome. The second thought is, I must be missing something that's terribly wrong.
The third thought is, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that.

Speaker 2 Take this in. Yeah.
Exist in this context. In the context.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you are unburdened by what has been.

Speaker 3 Who's up next? Let's say.

Speaker 20 oh no

Speaker 3 you got the eagle

Speaker 3 what is something you're patriotic about this is deceptively light

Speaker 3 yeah i'm a remember no no

Speaker 2 it's just internet trash

Speaker 3 um something that i'm patriotic about is going to target okay

Speaker 3 Like there is, I don't feel more American than I walk, than when I set on a mission to go to Target to buy two or three things and I walk out with 95 things, right?

Speaker 3 I just feel like I am an American.

Speaker 3 I have the ability and the freedom to walk up in this Target when I budgeted $25 and I'm spending $500.

Speaker 3 It makes me feel like I'm in my American power and I'm doing my civic duty as an American, spending money up in this motherfucker, and I feel good about it. Yeah.
Target. Target.
Target. I love that.

Speaker 2 I love that. Let's spin it again.

Speaker 3 it has landed on me.

Speaker 2 So, I want to talk about something I'm patriotic about, which is the way that the United States enters in the opening ceremony of every Olympics. It is one of my favorite times

Speaker 2 of the Olympics and one of my favorite moments every four years. Because, first of all, I don't know how Ralph Lorraine always gets this fucking contract, but we send our people out there.

Speaker 2 Like, they always look like the villains in a Mighty Duck movie. You know, they look like they work for the person that's going to beat Rocky.

Speaker 2 Like, they're so appointed. And even though I always feel that about the uniforms, the best moment is it's like, you know, a few people from this country, a few people like this from that country.

Speaker 2 And then we send in so many fucking people. And I love it every time.
I love it.

Speaker 2 I love how many Americans start marching through there, like, just like a whole fucking, just more than any other country. And it's like, you can't see the end of it.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Like France sends in their couple dozen. And then, and then what happens? Just a fucking phalanx of Americans, just one after another.
And they're all so, they're all so good looking.

Speaker 2 I love that about us.

Speaker 2 And I love that we just like, you know, the Swedes get to do a couple sports. They're like, I hope we can beat that American in that sport that we invented and is the only one we do.

Speaker 2 And it's like, maybe if you're lucky, but

Speaker 2 Swedes brought that sport to America about 120 years ago, and we're good at that too. And everybody was so smug about soccer for so long.
And it's like, sorry, we got a little interested.

Speaker 2 Now you're fucked.

Speaker 2 And I like it.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 3 Are we going to talker?

Speaker 3 We're going to talker too?

Speaker 2 I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Swamp bios goes goes so high up.

Speaker 2 And it's like, uh, and it's like, what are you thinking when you're up there?

Speaker 3 You know, like, left, left, left, right, down, up. How do you think through it? Oh, yeah, she's fully doing a Mortal Kombat finish him at the end.
Yes.

Speaker 3 She's like putting in a Mortal Kombat fatality.

Speaker 2 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 Like down, down, backback, circle, circle.

Speaker 3 Sub-Zero wishes. You know, he could never.

Speaker 2 Sub-Zero could never.

Speaker 2 Raiden could never.

Speaker 6 I'm too young for that reference.

Speaker 2 Same. Just three Gen Z girlies.

Speaker 2 There's There's just three patriotic Gen Z girlies.

Speaker 2 And that is

Speaker 2 Jose Can You Spin. One more time for Monet Exchange.

Speaker 2 One more time for Allison Rees.

Speaker 2 One more time for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 But we come back. We went on a high note.

Speaker 2 And we're back.

Speaker 2 Because we all need it this week. Here it is the high note.

Speaker 2 Hey Love It, it's Evan in Seattle.

Speaker 20 Last summer, my recovery was on the rocks, and I left school without my bachelor's, but now I have a fun job. I married Gabrielle, my partner, four years in February, and we're living together now.

Speaker 20 I'm a non-binary technician. He's a gender-queer artist.
It's awesome. A certain kind, his documentary about a queer feminist porn collective in Portland, just got into its third film festival.

Speaker 2 I know this is a lot of stuff, but the big high note is this.

Speaker 20 He was here from Mexico on a student visa, and if you've seen the movie Prople Mista, it's very much like that.

Speaker 3 Really stressful.

Speaker 20 Graduating from Cornish meant no visa, so we filed for his green card after our wedding in March, and it arrived last week with no interview. That's so lucky.

Speaker 20 Right out of college, he's allowed to work in the USA. If the worst happens in November, we might not be safe, but it's a start.

Speaker 20 I think about that all the time, and listening to you guys talk helps me deal. We're making our family.
Starting with two adorable baby kittens, Jammy and Mouse.

Speaker 20 Gabriel's Instagram, Toto La Papita, has pictures of them every day, and you can check out his work there too. Things are looking up, and I'm so glad I can support Gabriel in following his dream.

Speaker 20 It's my dream too now. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 Bye.

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